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Point-interacting Brownian motions in the KPZ universality class

Mathematical Physics 2014-11-13 v1 math.MP

Abstract

We discuss chains of interacting Brownian motions. Their time reversal invariance is broken because of asymmetry in the interaction strength between left and right neighbor. In the limit of a very steep and short range potential one arrives at Brownian motions with oblique reflections. For this model we prove a Bethe ansatz formula for the transition probability and self-duality. In case of half-Poisson initial data, duality is used to arrive at a Fredholm determinant for the generating function of the number of particles to the left of some reference point at any positive time. A formal asymptotics for this determinant establishes the link to the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang universality class.

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@article{arxiv.1411.3142,
  title  = {Point-interacting Brownian motions in the KPZ universality class},
  author = {Tomohiro Sasamoto and Herbert Spohn},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1411.3142},
  year   = {2014}
}

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34 pages, 2 figures